Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-28-2009

[anuran]

• What's so funny about rape? - Feministing
  ..and pointing out that rape jokes aren't subversive, they're the norm
  (tags: feminism comedy)
• Warming Up | Richard Herring.com
  ...and Richard Herring's reponse to the Guardian Article
  (tags: comedy guardian)
• The new offenders of standup comedy
  Guardian Article
  (tags: comedy grauniad)
• BBC NEWS | Magazine | Your pictures: Unsung views I
  Some of the best views in the British Isles? Number 2 should win an award for being the only picture ever taken of Bamburgh Castle not to actually feature Bamburgh Castle.
  (tags: pictures)
• Policeman takes "big cat" video
  Best video so far of a wild big cat in the UK
  (tags: news cryptozoology)
• THE FUCKING WEATHER
  fucking yes.
  (tags: weather.)

Comments

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[kiffkin.livejournal.com]

Further to the Richard Herring débâcle (to which the Guardian's lawyers must be screaming at Brian Logan right now), there's a response from Andrew Collins here (http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/BLOG/2009/07/racial-tension.html) (includes more from Herring in the comments) and one from Dave Gorman here (http://gormano.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-just-wrong.html).

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[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

thanks for that - it's annoying the article is so dismal, because it's an issue I'd like to see dissected well.

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

It is such a totally dreadful article, I'm glad the comedians who've been affected are getting their opinions circulated fairly widely.